Jokowi releases first export with giant ship to US

News Desk

The Jakarta Post

Jakarta /
Wed, May 16, 2018 / 11:43 am

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo, accompanied by a number of ministers, speaks during the release of first export with a giant ship at the Jakarta International Containers Terminal (JICT) at Tanjung Priok port in North Jakarta on May 15. (Courtesy of/the Indonesia Port Corporations (IPC) )

President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo officiated the departure on Tuesday of the first CMA CGM Tage container ship of exports from the Jakarta International Containers Terminal (JICT) at Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta.

The CMA CGM Tage ship, which has a capacity of 10,000 twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) containers, will serve direct calls from Jakarta to Los Angeles, the United States.

“We loaded the ship with 4,300 TEU containers. It is a large number. With the direct call, the transporting of goods is more efficient,” Jokowi said as reported by tribunnews.com.

The ship has a gross Tonnage (TG) of 95.263 and is 347 meters long. It is one of several massive ships that regularly dock at Tanjung Priok port.